Here's the condensed version of the story of us as told by the Barenakedladies...

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait... The Earth began to cool, The autotrophs began to drool, Neanderthals developed tools, We built a wall (we built the pyramids), Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries, That all started with the big bang!

Here's the condensed version of the story of us as told by the Barenakedladies...

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait... The Earth began to cool, The autotrophs began to drool, Neanderthals developed tools, We built a wall (we built the pyramids), Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries, That all started with the big bang!

Cool lyrics, I was hoping for something more detailed. Like for 10,000 years there has been religion. With each new generation there were new skills developed. Mankind started to explore the stars. We built huge telescopes that could see way out into space. We see new galaxies born before our eyes. etc etc etc

You are free to put whatever you want in your book. The Book of Mrjason.

1:1 In the beginning, God set forth a singularity anomaly that created an explosion that, in turn, created space, time and the elements; stars and galaxies were eventually created by the process of combining elements and gravity.

1:2 And the earth was formed from remnants of the star building process; free water eventually formed from environmental processes and primitive oceans.

1:3 There was light from a central star in our planetary system, with the darkness of night the result of the rotation of the planets around the star.

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"The question of whether atheists are, you know, right, typically gets sidestepped in favor of what is apparently the much more compelling question of whether atheists are jerks."